College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

Nothing Happens for the First Time

A seminary professor I once knew told his students, “Never preach about hell without tears in your eyes.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.

I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It's a different way to have fun.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.